Jason, I've been meaning to reply to that, but I don't have a really coherent reply yet. I do think there's an issue there and we should try to do something about it. Perhaps having a concept of file scope separate from module scope would help.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Jason Knight <binaryb...@gmail.com> wrote: > This (unsurprisingly) also relates to the semantics of ``import`` which I > brought up here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/julia-dev/McQNeqWT0uY > > > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:51:07 PM UTC-6, ele...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, December 12, 2014 10:36:40 AM UTC+10, samoconnor wrote: >>> >>> On Friday, December 12, 2014 9:58:57 AM UTC+11, ele...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>> See open Issues https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2327 and >>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4345 >>>> >>> >>> Ok, I take it that the short answer, from #4345 is that the intended >>> behaviour is not well thought out or well defined yet. >>> >> >> >> Yeah, that was the message I was getting from those. >> >
